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TOPSHOT - Newly-weds Jeanne Swerlin, 96, (R) and US WWII veteran Harold Terens, 100, (L) pose for photographs in front of a piper band as they celebrate their marriage during a wedding at the town hall of Carentan-les-Marais, in Normandy, northwestern France, on June 8, 2024, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that took place a few kilometres away. The D-Day ceremonies on June 6 this year marked the 80th anniversary since the launch of 'Operation Overlord', a vast military operation by Allied forces in Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II, eventually leading to the liberation of occupied France and the end of the war against Nazi Germany. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

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British soldiers at Juno Beach during the World War Two, D-Day landings in France 1944. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Paul Turner with one of the Castle Park memorial plaques. See SWNS story SWBRplaques. An "ashamed" thief who stole five D-Day memorial plaques has owned up to his actions - and returned one of the plaques with an apology letter and over ?200 in cash. The brass plaques were stolen from Castle Park in Bristol on September 2 - less than three months after being unveiled on June 6 to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. But the man behind it said in an apology letter that he was "ashamed and shocked" by his "drunken state" - and sent back one of the plaques, along with ?205 in cash. He wrote: "I hope this donation along with the plaque I returned can go some way to making up for the distress and upset that my actions have caused.

Guilty thief returns D-Day memorial plaque with apology letter and £205

UK September 12, 2019 By James Hockaday

Crosses of remembrance placed alongside a Union flag on a Normandy beach

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Silhouette of a soldier holding an English flag on the beach of Arromanches in Normandy during D-Day commemorations

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Compilation of pictures of D-Day veterans Harry Read, 95, and John Hutton, 94, completing a parachute jump with the Red Devils over France to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings

D-Day veterans aged 94 and 95 parachute into Normandy 75 years after invasion

World June 6, 2019 By James Hockaday

A colourised picture of a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. To the right is another LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle) The soldiers are protecting their weapons with Pliofilm covers against the wetness. These U.S. Army infantry men are amongst the first to attack the German defenses probably near Ruquet, Saint Laurent sur Mer.

Only a quarter of D-Day veterans spoke about the invasion

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(left to right) D-Day veterans Greg Hayward, 93, who served with the RAF, Eric Strange, 95, who served with the Royal Navy and Leonard Williams, 93, who served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on board HMS St Albans, during an announcement for D-Day 75th anniversary commemorations. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday April 17, 2019. See PA story DEFENCE DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

300 British D-Day veterans to return to Normandy beaches after 75 years

UK April 22, 2019 By James Hockaday

D-Day veteran burgled while making first trip back to Normandy in 74 years

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TOPSHOT - A policeman stands guard while people arrive for a Mass at the Rouen Cathedral, on July 27, 2016 in Rouen, to pay tribute to the priest Jacques Hamel, killed on July 26 in a church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during a hostage-taking claimed by Islamic State group. France probes an attack on a church in which two men described by the Islamic State group as its "soldiers" slit the throat of a priest. An elderly priest had his throat slit in a church in northern France on July 26 after two men stormed the building and took hostages. The attack in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray came as France was still coming to terms with the Bastille Day killings in Nice claimed by the Islamic State group. / AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAUCHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images

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D-Day Vet Bernard Jordan vows return for next year's commemorations

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French gendarmes stand in the village where the mayor of Bretteville-le-Rabet was found dead after he was fatally injured and emasculated by a man who suspected him '' of having an affair with his wife'' on May 23, 2014 in Bretteville-le-Rabet, northwestern France. The alleged murderer of the mayor killed himself, according to sources close to the investigation. AFP PHOTO/CHARLY TRIBALLEAUCHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images

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